Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — Resolutions of The Teachers’ Association. [ARTICLE]

Resolutions of The Teachers’ Association.

Your Committee on Resolutions beg to submit the following: 1. That the Trustee of each school corporation be required to purchnse from year to year a sufficient number of sets of the Y. P. R. C. books that all pupils in the school corporation can be accommodated. 2. That the Tp. Trustee be empowered to employ a special teacher in music, said teacher to have general supervision and direction of the work in music his in his Township. Provided that in the case of small Townships, two may be allowed to combine for the purpose of securing a music teacher. 3. That a law be enacted providing for the employment, of a Tp. Principal for each Tp, tho duty of said Principal to be the supervison of the work in liis Township. 4. That we favor the enactment iuio law of the provisions of the bill before the last legislature, known as Senate bill No. 59. otherwise'known as the Geeting Bill. 5. That such a law be enacted •'.e v,'ll s cure a freo library in every Township in Indiana; and that such modifications of our present State Library laws be made as will secure greater freedom in the use of the materials in our State Library. 6. That such amendments to our Compulsory Educational Law be made as will require: (a) The child to enter school at the beginning of the school year and continue in school the entire school year. (b) Attendance between the age of eight years and sixteen years old. Respectfully submitted by the committee on Resolutions. W. H. Sanders, Chairman of Cora. Nov. 26, 1898. Rensselaer, Ind